The glamour and adventure of embassy life in London. Mary Allison didn't consider her position at the American Embassy in London as very important--but it was exciting to feel that she was a part of the important diplomatic life between two gr...
The weather was foul, and the extra-fare Victory Special from Chicago to New Orleans was late. Flight Hostess Lyle Maxon walked up the aisle answering questions, comforting the nervous, joking with the experienced passengers. “You must have lear...
Probably none of the several thousand people who lived in Knickerbocker Towers saw anything sinister in its atmosphere, but when Dora walked in at the nearest entrance that September evening at dusk, that was the way it impresses her. She had just ru...
Her first sight of the young man approaching the Bookmobile told Laura Crane that he definitely was not a native of Bronckville. Jeffrey Harrod was theatrically handsome, his manner urbane -- that he was from New York was no surprise. But the revelat...
• Arthur Pendragon, president of Camelot College, hosts a welcome home party for Lance Lake--long-absent friend of both the president and his wife, Gwen. Arthur wants Lance, a lawyer, to join the faculty, and he seems as doubting of a refusal as he...
Diagnosis: Loneliness Prescription: Love As simply as that, Nurse Marian Rutledge prescribed for the people of Bridgetown. There was Marian’s brother Clive, who frequently thought that something -- or someone -- was missing from his life. ...
At first, lovely young Rosalind Jeffries was puzzled by the mysterious aura that seemed to shroud Cheney House with gloom. But as the days passed, her puzzlement turned to terror. Suddenly she was aware of danger at every landing, behind every locked...
Janet Sayre had been riding since she was six -- at the time when the Kentucky stables of the Sayre family had been filled with race horses. Now, the Sayre fortune gone, there were five horses left, and only one of them, a chestnut colt with any hope...